Curtis Hanson Quotes
Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.
Curtis Hanson
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Salman Rushdie
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
Ingrid Newkirk
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
Vincent Cassel
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
Victoria Jackson
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
Dan Gilbert
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I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.
Mary Barra
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My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
Archy Ivan Marshall
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I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.
Lisa Scottoline
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My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.
Jess Glynne
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Kenneth L. Pike
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It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
Paul Wolfowitz
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I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.
Jean Smart
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
Louis Theroux
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When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
Andrea Riseborough
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My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
Jane Campion
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It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
Marquis de Lafayette
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No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.
Martin O'Malley
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This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about that. In many ways there's something very practical about this world, the Kamar-Taj. It's - You know, we all look like samurai warriors, but actually there are iPads everywhere and there's a feeling that it's a practical possibility for this modern world that the Doctor Strange universe is functioning, and that we know it and it's around the corner for all of us.
Tilda Swinton
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To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.
Eugene B. Sledge
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I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad.
Jennifer Garner
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We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.
Esther Hicks
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I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down.
Elena Ferrante
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Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.
Curtis Hanson
